I’ve known Fresh Daily for quite some time.  And he has done nothing but release quality music over the years.  A fine representative of the planet of Brooklyn if I do say so myself.  There was one thing that piqued my interest about his latest project before I even heard any of the music:  the title.  The Quiet Life is everything hip-hop isn’t.  So that blatant anthithesis caught my attention right away.

What could possibly be on the new album?  Well, I’m just going to leave that to you guys to discover for yourself.  I can tell the beats for this were chosen with great care. This is one of those rare, perfect marriages of production, rhymes and flow. F*ck curling up on the couch with a good book. Grab some earbuds and an iPod.

I saw Homebody Sandman & PackFM perform this heat rock a few months back at a show in the basement of Santos Party House. My face was on some next level ugly sh*t. Because the title of the song was completely self-explanatory.  This song is “BONKERS.”  You can imagine the surprise on my face when I found out that this song did NOT make the final cut of HBSM’s The Good Sun (slated to drop June 1st on High Water Music).  I can only imagine the heat on the album that made this hit the floor.  It’s all good though.  Move any expensive furniture out of the way before you give this one a spin.

DOWNLOAD | Homeboy Sandman f/ PackFM – “Bonkers”

Sonic Smash was one of the best pure, straight-no-chaser hip-hop albums of 2009.  When DJ Spinna is behind the boards, there’s not much that can go wrong.  Chancleta Films got the nod to bring the Homeboy Sandman / P.SO / Fresh Daily collabo “Get On Down” from the speakers to the camera lens.  And they kept it wild simple.  New York emcees spittin’.  “What?  Ain’t no more to it.” © B.I.G.

Well whaddya know?  This was a surprise today.  Well to me at least.  A brand new album-length mixtape from Brooklyn borough / High Water Music / AOK Collective representative Fresh Daily (released exclusively by Fly Lyf).  I don’t even have to go into how ill and creative this emcee is.  I’ve had his material on this blog plenty of times before.  And he keeps elevating his game every time.  You can see for yourself once you click the link below and download the mixtape.

DOWNLOAD | Fresh Daily – Tomorrow Is Today (mixtape)

Off the somewhat-ancient Love, Money & Music album by the homie 8thW1, peep the video for “Drunken Saturday,” filmed by Court Dunn for Restless Films.  This is probably the most fun and to-the-left joint on the album.  And it was obviously begging for some visual accompaniment.  So what do you do?  Dance around your bedroom in your underwear, call some friends, put on some clothes and then do it all over again at a bar.  Simple and genius concept.

p.s. If you know what I look like, you can easily find me two-stepping with a bottle of beer in hand.  I didn’t show enough emotion and I regret it.  It was cold out.

The 2 Hungry Bros. made a nice, indelible stamp on the game when they released the free My Crew’s All Thinner mixtape.  They plan on making another power move this summer with an all-new production album called No Room for Dessert.  Let the leakage begin.  Here’s one of the tracks from the album, “Stupidface,” featuring an incredible emcee and great friend of this very blog, 8thW1.  I’ve featured alot of his work here before.  And the bar just keeps getting raised.

DOWNLOAD | 2 Hungry Bros. f/ 8thW1 – “Stupidface”

In true Dee Phunk fashion, I’m extremely late in posting this.  Mainly because I just got around to listening to recently. Yes, believe it or not, I actually listen to stuff before I post it on the blog.  Crazy, right?  This new 2 Hungry Bros. mixtape (in conjuction w/ the crazy NYC-based AOK Collective) have dropped this new mixtape, My Crew’s All Thinner.  2 Hungry Bros. dig thru their crates for rare grooves and have some of their most talented spitter friends rhyme their asses off. 

Some of the beats you may have never heard before, some will sound very familiar as they have been sampled before.  2HB even leaves some of the songs intact and full for your listening pleasure.  Definite must-listen.  Time to do your homework.

DOWNLOAD | 2 Hungry Bros. – My Crew’s All Thinner (mixtape)

Over the weekend, 8thW1 hit me on the Twitter: “I just sent you something.”  I knew it was gonna be music.  8th has quickly become one of my favorite up-and-comers as far as NYC goes.  The joint is called “Sound Quality Convo.”  Basically a rugged platform to vent about folks who complain about how a song may be lacking in the mixing department but meanwhile downloaded the thing for free anyway.  Alot of emcees today have taken music into their own hands.  You no longer have to go and spend dough on studio time if you have a basement, an ill computer and Pro Tools.  Or Reason.  Or Garage Band.  See my point?  Respect the craft and the grind.

Oh and I didn’t even catch until after the third listen or so that 8th gave Trees for Breakfast its first ever mention on record.  So big ups to him.  I don’t want my rep to grow as the guy who posts everything late LOL.  My motto though:  “It’s always gonna be new to SOMEBODY.”  Produced by Mentplus.

DOWNLOAD | 8thW1 – “Sound Quality Convo”

Every now and then, the homie 8thW1 will drop a gem or two in my inbox and I get amped every time.  I just learned about the AOK Collective emcee this year thanks to the good folks at Homebase NYC.  I became an instant fan.  And apparently, so did a bunch of you out there in Internet-land.  Y’all hit the site up crazy when I posted “Flawed” back in September.  So here’s some more fire. 

First off we got “Song of Random Thoughts,” which is pretty self-explanatory (produced by Quiryoga).  And the other is “Who Am I Kiddin,” where 8thW1 jacks / loops up one of Kanye’s melancholy 808s & Heartbreaks beats and assumes the “sucker for love” role quite convincingly.

DOWNLOAD | 8thW1 – “Song of Random Thoughts”
DOWNLOAD | 8thW1 – “Who Am I Kiddin”

Another joint from out of left field that renews and rejuvenates my love for hip-hop.  Big up to 2dopeboyz for posting this.  The joint is by Jersey emcee 8thw1 (simply pronounced 8TH ONE, out of the AOK Collective) with the homies (and personal favorites) Che Grand and Tanya Morgan‘s own Von Pea on the guest spots. 

The beat (produced by Sincere aka Young Jedi) is just disgusting.  It has this sloppy RZA-ish / Madlib-ish incomplete cadence that I am diggin’ something terrible.  Not everyone can rap over beats like these.  These guys…yup.

DOWNLOAD | 8thw1 f/ Che Grand & Von Pea – “Flawed”
(re-upped Dec 22, 2008)